The following video from teachers TV in the UK contains story starters which are worth looking through to see if they can be relevant to learning in your class. They have been designed for teachers to use on their interactive whiteboards. Each starter is a short and dramatic video clip designed to stimulate children's imaginations and entice them to continue the story and delve into creative writing. The DP, Simon Botten introduces and gives some tips on some ways to use these resources.
Overcoming Writer's Block: Writer's Block can stop your creative efforts and overcoming this is a tough task. Dial this service and enlist their help to find helpful suggestions and ideas to get those creative juices flowing again.
The Treasure Tree - Some Free Resources Available Including Animated Story Starters
Random Story Starter: The Story Starter randomly generates 1,528,065,000 story starters. This idea generator can be used for short stories, novels, plays, scripts, or just for fun.
The following video from teachers TV in the UK contains story starters which are worth looking through to see if they can be relevant to learning in your class. They have been designed for teachers to use on their interactive whiteboards. Each starter is a short and dramatic video clip designed to stimulate children's imaginations and entice them to continue the story and delve into creative writing. The DP, Simon Botten introduces and gives some tips on some ways to use these resources.
Overcoming Writer's Block: Writer's Block can stop your creative efforts and overcoming this is a tough task. Dial this service and enlist their help to find helpful suggestions and ideas to get those creative juices flowing again.
Illustrated Story Starters for Young Children
The Treasure Tree - Some Free Resources Available Including Animated Story Starters
Random Story Starter: The Story Starter randomly generates 1,528,065,000 story starters. This idea generator can be used for short stories, novels, plays, scripts, or just for fun.
Story Starters from Scholastic: You never quite know what combinations the machine will come up with
Story Starters & Promptsfrom Think Quest
Also from the same people come: http://library.thinkquest.org/J001156/writing%20process/sl_storystarters.htm
Schools World TV has an amazing collection of Primary Lesson Starters to trigger thinking across the curriculum
Fireworks
It's Unfair
An Adventure Story
Keeping Pets
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